转弯子 zhuǎnwānzi to beat about the bush Definitions Defs Origin Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 转弯子 轉彎子 zhuǎn//wānzi to beat about the bush to speak or act in a roundabout way rather than being direct; to avoid coming straight to the point to change one's mind to shift one's thinking or come around to a new idea; to change one's point of view Frequency Movie subtitles 0.030 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.017 per million Cross-References See 转着弯儿 zhuǎnzhewānr Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
转弯子 轉彎子 zhuǎn//wānzi to beat about the bush to speak or act in a roundabout way rather than being direct; to avoid coming straight to the point to change one's mind to shift one's thinking or come around to a new idea; to change one's point of view Frequency Movie subtitles 0.030 per million appears in 0% of films Written text 0.017 per million Cross-References See 转着弯儿 zhuǎnzhewānr Sources Frequency data SUBTLEX-CHBCC Corpus (BLCU)
